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The Associated Octel Company Limited P.O. Box No.17, Oil Sites Road, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral L65 4HF Registered Office: 20 Berkeley Square, London, W1 X 6DT Registered No: 344359 Registered - London Telephone: 051-355 3611 Telex: 629384 Telegrams: OCTEL ELLPORT Cables: OCTEL ELLESMERE PORT j Dr. R.A. Keboe, Highland Towers, Apartment 15D4, 1071 Celestial Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, U.5.A. Your ref. Our ref. 28 June 1979. Dear Bob, Many thanks for your letter of June 7, which reached me only today. Our postal service at present is all at sixes and sevens, due to letter bomb scares and Civil Service unrest, following the election of our new government, which has proposals tc^ reduce our vast number of Civil Servants to a more manageable level. As ^egar'ds^ the Ventolin, we were more than pleased to be able to get this for you and no question of payment arises. If Lucile can get by with half a tablet, then this mu.st be all to the good, although it is something of a nuisance to have to split a tablet each time. I am glad the lesion in your right eye has cleared up and hope that you will not be bothered by it again. The paper you sent us under separate cover, arrived-about a week before your letter and I agree is a very good summary of your studies. As I was reading through it, it seemed to me I had read it before and sure enough, on checking with our Medical Department library, I found we had a copy which either you had sent to me, or I had picked up from you, in 1966. If you are short of copies I shall send this one back to you, but otherwise would prefer to keep it here. I do not think I really have the temerity to either advise you or offer critical comment on the way in which ycu propose to set out your data. However, I agree that tables and illustrative figures of the data for each subject should be produced and, if possible, made out in such uniform way as to afford comparisons between subjects. Differences between the subjects, such as race, age, height, weight, metabolism, ventilatory capacity, medical and social histories, including academic abilities, and any othdr differences that might have been noted at the time, would be of value for inclusion, on the basis that such differences may, in some way, have influenced the metabolism of lead. You have, of course, a great profusion of data and the prime difficulty is going to be in condensing it all in such a way as to present a report which, while 2- Incidentally, in a letter we received recently from Lucile, she mentioned that you had loaned a paper of yours to Mike Williams and Ray Higgins last December when they met up with you in Cincinnati and that they had failed to return this to you. I know Ray Higgins very well and yesterday dropped him a note to jog his memory. . I returned to work yesterday after my little interlude with the ENT surgeon, and apart from the occasional feeling of slight nasal insecurity, I am pretty well back to normal again. Anne send-iher love to you both. Kindest regards, Yours sincerely, ,0